Chapter 972: The Philippine Question II
readx; Since China and the United States are both countries with huge industrial production capacity, and the equipment of the army is not lacking, they are desperately strengthening and strengthening the firepower of the troops, and the establishment is much the same, because the equipment and establishment are similar, the tactics of the two armies are also very similar in actual combat, when attacking, a large number of tanks and other armored vehicles open the way, countless planes in the sky fly around to support, and the artillery in the rear throws shells like no money, and when the ordinary infantry goes to the battlefield, the battle is almost over. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
After learning that China had deployed heavy troops in Iran and Siberia and was frequently mobilized, Stalin did not care about the great counteroffensive on the Western Front, and hurriedly transferred a large number of troops from the Western Front to the Siberian region of the Eastern Front and the Caucasus of the Southern Front.
In order to solve this problem and at the same time enrich the equipment, the method adopted is to further arm the second-line troops, that is, the local garrison forces in the country, and before World War II and in the early days, the Chinese Army transferred a large number of local garrison troops to form the 67th to 99th Divisions. At present, the army is also concentrating a large number of local garrison troops, equipped with a large number of heavy weapons and equipment, and is expected to be organized into 100 to 150 divisions, which will be mainly deployed in the newly occupied areas of Central Asia, Belga Province, Kamchatka Province, and other areas, mainly to carry out anti-guerrilla tasks, and to support the front-line field troops on the western front when necessary.
At the same time, in order to control that the total number of land forces would not rise sharply too much, the army did not fill the gap in the local garrison units after it was transferred, but directly used the infantry divisions formed in the future to serve as local garrison tasks.
This kind of move can be roughly seen as the fact that the army is gradually phasing out the traditional low-cost local garrison units, while reorganizing these local garrison units into regular field troops, so that the total number of troops of the army will not increase too much, but the field forces that can be used will increase by a large margin; according to the army's plan, they are preparing to reorganize all the local garrison units into division-level units one after another, and finally make the total strength of the army's 10 million troops, the number of troops that can be used for field warfare reach about 6 million. The rest is logistical transportation and command personnel or civilian personnel.
To put it bluntly, it is to upgrade all the more than 3 million local garrison troops to field troops.
If we say that they are strong in combat effectiveness, because it is very difficult to fight in the field without advanced heavy weapons, and if we say that they are weak, they are equipped with machine guns and artillery to fight against guerrilla attacks and maintain local law and order, and there is a serious surplus of them, and more importantly, they occupy too many personnel, and more than 3 million of China's so-called 10 million army forces are local garrison troops.
Therefore, the Chinese army is holding on to the expectation that a large number of heavy weapons such as T9\12 tanks that are about to withdraw from the active service of the front-line troops will be put in the warehouse and moldy, and it is better to directly equip them to the hands of the local garrison troops, so that although the combat effectiveness cannot be compared with the first-line elite troops, it can be pulled into the battlefield to fight.
The large-scale mobilization of the Chinese Army, and the posture of fighting a full-scale war with Britain and the United States, how can it not make Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union and other countries nervous.
Stalin did not care about the strategic counteroffensive against the German army on the Western Front, and transferred the troops of the Western Front to the Eastern Front to prevent a sudden attack by China.
In March 1945, the confrontation between Chinese and Soviet forces in the direction of the Caucasus and Siberia became more and more serious, and in the direction of the Middle East, the Allies also sent a large number of troops to Syria and Iraq, trying to engage in a serious military confrontation with China in the direction of the Arabian Peninsula.
At the same time, in the Italian direction, the Allied forces are also drawing a large number of troops to prepare for the landing on the Italian mainland, and in the British direction, a large number of Allied [***] forces are gathering at the same time, preparing to land directly on the French coast.
In Asia and the Pacific, the sea and air confrontation between China and the United States is even more severe.
In general, in March 1945, the global situation was in a state of chaos.
In this context, diplomats from various countries are busier than the soldiers and spies of various countries, constantly shuttling between the political centers of various countries, whether it is Washington or Nanjing, or Switzerland and other places in neutral countries, a large number of diplomats from various countries are active to strive for the maximum interests of each country.
On March 12, 1945, China's Foreign Minister Gu Weijun invited the United States to talks on the grounds that the civil war in the Philippines had intensified, saying that China and the United States should sit together and peacefully resolve the issue of the civil war in the Philippines.
If there are various conflicts of interest between China and the United States on a global scale, there is no doubt that the conflict in the direction of the Philippines is the most serious.
In the course of the confrontation, China and the United States successively seized the northern and southern parts of the Philippines, and then the two countries each supported the local Philippine political axe and began to vigorously support the local armed forces; for this reason, they did not hesitate to give a large amount of interest-free military loans and sell all kinds of advanced weapons at low prices, so that the two Philippine armed forces in the north and the south grew rapidly; in less than half a year, the discarded Philippine National Defense Forces supported by China in the north had swelled to more than 300,000, and the weapons equipped were all Chinese standard weapons, and the navy and air force were complete. The Philippine Political Axe Army in the south also quickly built up more than 10 divisions, with a total strength of more than 200,000 troops.
Although the quality of the personnel of the North and South Philippine armed forces is very low, they have a lot of advanced weapons in their hands, and these two armed forces are also very fast, with the support of China and the United States, frequent armed conflicts.
Under such circumstances, China suddenly offered to negotiate with the United States to find a peaceful solution to the civil war in the Philippines.
If we think of China's Atlantic nuclear bomb exercise in February, then there is no doubt that China has begun to reach out to the United States to demand benefits after showing off its nuclear bomb and B19 bomber to the Americans!
As soon as Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Guo Taiqi took his seat, he said to the US ambassador to China: "For this negotiation, China hopes that the issue of the Philippine civil war can be resolved peacefully and that the Filipino people will have a stable and peaceful living environment." In view of the frequent armed conflicts between the North and the South and the Philippines, and the participation of a large number of outsiders in this process. Therefore, in line with the basic principle of 'non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries' that China and the United States have always advocated, we hope that you can end the military presence in Mindanao, and of course, as a sincere intention, we will solemnly promise that we will never participate in the civil war of the Philippine people." ”
Guo Taiqi's words made the faces of several Americans on the opposite side change, because Guo Taiqi only said that the United States should end its garrison in the South Philippines, but did not say that China would also end its garrison in the North Philippines.
In fact, Guo Taiqi's diplomats are still quite tactful, if it is replaced by a direct interview between Chen Jingyun and Roosevelt, Chen Jingyun will definitely say the first sentence: I want the South Philippines, you give it or not, if you don't give it, you will go to war!
However, when it comes to diplomacy, no matter how dirty and dirty the purpose is, diplomats can always find the most appropriate reason and language to tell it.
As if to cooperate with the move of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, the Chinese Navy later announced that in order to maintain the combat effectiveness of the army, the Chinese Navy will conduct a large-scale live-fire exercise in the Philippine Sea, followed by the arrival of China's Fifth Mobile Fleet from various naval bases, and at the same time, the Chinese Navy's Second Mobile Fleet, which has been difficult for outsiders to detect, suddenly appeared in the waters of the Central Pacific.
The exercise of the Fifth Mobile Fleet of the Chinese Navy was not counted, but the Second Mobile Fleet of the Chinese Navy was said to be the absolute main force of the Chinese Navy since the beginning of the war, and during the Sino-Japanese War, it made outstanding achievements in war, and almost undertook the task of fighting against the main force of the Navy.
Also in order to create momentum, China's National Military Commission announced China's nuclear bomb and B19 bomber for the first time at a regular press conference, and said that China's nuclear bomb will be the most powerful guarantee for the interests of the country and the nation.
Although it is said that China has dropped as many as five nuclear bombs, and outsiders have been informed of China's nuclear bombs, China's official information has not officially announced and introduced China's nuclear bomb development to the outside world. As for the B19 bomber, it is no secret after the Atlantic nuclear bomb exercises, because the Olive Branch-1 program is public, which led to the United States taking a large number of photos of the B19 bomber, and even the video, but the same Chinese official also did not release any information about the B19 bomber on official channels.
And this time, China is generous to show the nuclear bomb and the B19 bomber, and even released a few precious photos, these photos are much clearer than the photos taken by outsiders, that are all posed, especially the B19 Feixin gives you a few photos above the clouds, so that the outside world for the first time directly feel the huge B19 bomber!
Although only a few posed photos were released, and no questions about the surname Noh were announced, the general surname of the B19 bomber was actually exposed when it was conducting the Atlantic nuclear bomb exercise, with an altitude of more than 16,000 kilometers, a range of 10,000 kilometers, and a cruising speed of 550 kilometers at an altitude of 15,000 kilometers.
Of course, some details are unknown to outsiders, such as the low and outrageous anti-overload ability of the B19 bomber, the fact that it is possible to disintegrate in the air if you do a little big maneuver, and there is no self-defense armament, the fuselage structure is fragile, etc., and even the maximum take-off weight and empty weight and other important data are also very different from the outside world's speculation, the outside world speculates that the B19 maximum take-off weight is at least 180 tons according to the photos of the B19, and some people even say that it is 200 tons, But in reality it is far from that big, only 160 tons.
In any case, it is very obvious that China's official announcement of the B19 bomber and the nuclear bomb is to add leverage to the ongoing peace talks between China and the United States in the Philippines.
Although it is not explicitly stated, and there is no need to say it explicitly, the attitude that should have been laid out: if you Americans do not obediently withdraw from the Western Pacific, don't blame Chen Jingyun for unceremoniously throwing nuclear bombs at New York!